I get frustrated when I go to a bookstore and they say they have the book at every location except for the one I’m standing at.
I don’t like paying for shipping (or paying a subscription to not pay for shipping).
But have you seen the Espresso Book Machine? It launched on Friday at a Blackwell’s bookstore. You type in which book you want, it binds a new copy while you drink a cup of coffee.
Insane.
Now you don’t have to worry about books being in stock, especially rare/old books.
What will really be interesting is to see how the employees of the 60 branches scheduled to get the machines adapt. Will people look for more recommendations now? Less? There will be less time walking the shelves, straightening titles and all that. What if the employees now had a set-up like an Apple Store Genius Bar?
Did you like Skeleton Creek? (Creepy, right?) In October Ghost in the Machine is coming out. I’m very excited.
Yes. How does that book have a sequel? Perhaps it’s a companion book.
But would you like to be one of the video stars in the book? Patrick Carman’s studio will be holding auditions on May 1. Click on the link for more information.
Choose whether you want to read for the guy script or the girl script and it will open the audition PDF file. Videotape your audition and put it on YouTube following their directions.
Even if you don’t want to audition, it’s still pretty fun to read parts of the script ahead of time.
I can’t find where to audition as the bearded librarian…
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